From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2005-01-25T11:52:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity

On Monday 24 January 2005 07:36 pm, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> I can't get rid of the lingering feeling that Ruby is still somewhat
> immature/unpolished.  [...]
> Some things I still have no explanation for, such as why there are
> mutually incompatible Time and DateTime classes with different
> functionality.

Actually, if you consider Java, incompatible Date/Time structures with 
deprecated APIs indicate a _mature_ language.

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